old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

I haven't changed my tone on crypto from day one. This reserve is the Big Scam(tm). I don't argue with y'all. I don't pretend that my decades of academic and lived experience are equal to your 2 second searches and misplaced confidence. I'm not here to make you feel more knowledgeable than you are

The silencing of victims is sadly a global phenomenon: #media #oscars #rapeculture journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This struck me as the perfect distillation of JD Vance. He is a shockingly incurious and unserious guy who has faked his way into the center of power and now thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.

A week ago, Pam Bondi went on Fox News claiming the files were sitting on her desk. Now, in a fabricated letter to Kash Patel, she insists she never received them. Congrats on shifting the news cycle. Lie better.

lol this take is DRENCHED in privilege. Marginalized people cannot afford to be apolitical because our very identity IS POLITICAL. Activism isn't some cute hobby folks are engaging in. People are advocating for their SURVIVAL. bsky.app/profile/stev...

Fantastic read.A compelling behind the scenes look of realities that scholars based in Africa face when collaborating w colleagues based in the Global North. Also offers advice on building more ethical collaborations. For everyone in global collaborative research. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

This is LITERALLY what USAID does!!!

Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety

I see that bald headed man has decided to finally stop pretending that he cares about the newspaper. This was always going to happen once orange man won the election. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...

“And therefore, we will _____.”

They allowed for this to happen the moment they kept quiet about @apnews.com being denied entry.

The wages of the WHCA’s public silence on the White House’s unlawful retaliation against the AP are even bolder encroachments against the free press’s prerogatives.

this is a damn good way of putting the James Carville phenomenon in perspective

Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

Andrew Carnegie helped kill 2600 people in a flood and sicced Pinkerton guards on striking workers. We really don’t need to do gilded age revisionism.

Will you poor sad losers please stop reflexively going with "He has a point, but..."?

I was pretty skeptical of Amazon taking control of the Bond franchise, but if this is the direction it's going, I'm pro.

"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...

Just an unbelievable own goal that the party—and specifically Pelosi, who had great strengths as Speaker—put an ancient and not nimble messenger in this key public committee spot instead of @Aoc who is absolutely one of the best comms people in entire party.

I just wish that we actually cared about antisemitism in this country. But instead yall had congressional hearings vilifying students and faculty (of all races & ethnicities) protesting genocide and silence with actual sieg heiling by white suprmacists.

WHOA

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The thing about swastikas spray painted on the side of a cybertruck is there’s a 50/50 chance the owner did it.

People who were willing to risk their job security and literally everything tied to being able to live, just to go vote ? And yall expect them to do more after failing them? Yeah nah

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... American tech companies are about to run even more wild. This is going to be dreadful…

So while media avoid calling Palestinian refugees as such, and with talk of mass deportation of refugees, we see this over stretching of the word in other contexts that contributes to eroding its meaning. No those who left twitter are not refugees.. neither are Americans moving to Madrid 🤦🏻

Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.

www.thedp.com/article/2025... wow

ⓘ This account will make posts like "do i have to listen to A-pop through J-pop to appreciate K-pop" and continue to evade suspension

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

Fact-Checking in Africa: Combating disinformation amid political strife and ethnic conflict - Nieman Reports url:https://niemanreports.org/fact-checking-africa-disinformation-ethnic-politics-conflict/

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what more proof do you need?

BREAKING: The SEC has dropped its enforcement case against Coinbase. Coinbase spent $46 million to influence the outcome of the election. Now they're already getting their payoff.

I've said for years that anti-Blackness, racism and white supremacy should be considered as misinformation / disinformation. To study the history of race and journalism is to see that White supremacy was an effective disinformation campaign. And through that, we got Jim Crow, a fascist system.

This is interesting because the question is less what they will do as *legislators* and more what they will do as *politicians*. AOC is a member of the House minority, but she’s doing a lot of politics about all of this anyway.

This is wild

Well then…

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... such a badly written column. Its just idiotic nonsense masquerading as intellectual musings.

So few people writing for mainstream publications are fit to diagnose or even describe our current status and they prove it by even now consistently using the right’s framing in their reporting.

It's not that they don't understand how the government is constitutionally structured, it's that they're actively opposed to it.

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.